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Mervyn Robert Coley

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Mervyn Robert AWMM
  • Surname
    Coley AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    • Jayforce NZ444799 AWMM
    • Jayforce 652511 AWMM
    • Jayforce 36906 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    • Unknown AWMM Vogel Street, Shannon, Horowhenua, New Zealand AWMM
    • Unknown AWMM Unknown AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Jayforce Mrs M.E. Roberts (mother), Vogel Street, Shannon, Horowhenua, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards

Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Husband of Joyce AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    17 January 2012 AWMM
    Age 85 AWMM
    Lower Hutt, Wellington AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Cremated AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death Notice: Dominion Post, 23 January 2012 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Aged 85 at time of passing. Gone but never forgotten. Forever loved and remembered by your wife Joyce and all the Family xxxx R.I.P
    Public - Joyce Myrtle - Wife - 4 April 2015
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Sources

Sources

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  • References
    • Dominion Post AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1950). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 16 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1946 to 30th June, 1948). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 16: WW2 25 AWMM
    • Dominion Post AWMM
      Death Notice: Dominion Post, 23 January 2012 AWMM
    • Brocklebank, L.W. (1997). Jayforce : New Zealand and the military occupation of Japan, 1945-48. Auckland, N.Z.: Oxford University Press. AWMM

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04 April 2015Joyce MyrtleWainuiomata,NZWife

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